How can I change the onwership of a complete directory .... I havetried!

[Michael Fakaro]

Thanks so much ... I am up and running

Have a great day

Mike


On Sunday 21 May 2006 08:51, Vu Pham wrote:
> Try :
> # cd /your_directory_you_want_to_change
> # chown -R mike:users *
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Michael Fakaro
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:38 AM
> To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org; mfakaro at telus.net
> Subject: How can I change the onwership of a complete directory .... I
> havetried!
>
> I just updated to Sus 10.1 and had backed up my .evolution directory onto
> cd
>
> I attempted to copy it back using my user account and it would not copy so
> I tried it as SU and it worked fine
>
> Then I tried to run Evolution and what a mess it said the permissions were
> all wrong
>
> So I attempted to go into SU and change the properties and it wouldn't let
> me in the gui so I went to the command line using
>
> example:
>
> chown mike .evolution
>
> chgrp users .evolution
>
> It changed the folder but not the contents
>
> So I opened the folders and used
>
> chown mike *
>
> chgrp users *
>
> It worked to but if I have to go to each directory to do this I'll be here
> all month
>
> Is there a command that will drill down and change all them at once ... I
> can't find it in any of my manuals.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
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